Today when I went shopping, I ended up talking to a salesman. I live in the USA and I'm saddened and surprised that my country did nothing to help your country. Listening and looking at the above links really made me want to do something to make a change. But I'm not finished with my first story.

The salesman used to be in the USA military and he said he never went to Vietnam. He said we won that war and we helped everyone there to have better lives.

He really believed my country won!

He did not know a thing about Agent Orange and he said, "We made Vietnam safe for democracy. That's good enough for me."

I was excited when I discovered this forum, but I need to warn everyone: if this guy really believes the US won the Vietnam (American) War (you learn new things everyday) then others probably have the same mindset.

We will have an uphill battle to try to clean up Agent Orange and help the victims. I'm going to do some serious thinking on what should be our next steps. I hope we can solve this problem and put it behind us together--Americans and Vietnamese.

I have tried to find links to American victims of Agent Orange, but so far all that I can find out is Dow chemical knew about the dangers even as they allowed the US to deploy the chemicals and that Monsanto claims they are innocent because the USA hired them. I thought we were beyond this kind of ignorance.

Just want everyone to know that I translated M. Lapin's reply (and my own) using an Internet translator. I do not know how KJ Touhy translated her reply. I would appreciate it if someone wrote to me and told me if the translator really works.

Just want everyone to know that I translated M. Lapin's reply (and my own) using an Internet translator. I do not know how KJ Touhy translated her reply. I would appreciate it if someone wrote to me and told me if the translator really works.

This site is up and running because we as a world community have to help solve the agent orange chriusis. Any photos or data or any other things that can help us to make a strong statement and give us the ability to collect money to assist in solving this terrible problem will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for joing the forum.

Michael

PS--Alsoi any insights on how to make the website itself better and to get more publkicity for it and this forum is also greatly appreciated.

To reframe Shakespeare a bit: The evil that nations do lives on after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Long after the last stock has crashed and the last American dollar has been devalued and left floating, worthless paper in the deserted canyons of Wall Street, our BS empire will be remembered for the nuclear trash we have strewn, the water we have polluted and the air we have befouled.

We will not be remembered in the lands of Vietnam primarily for our legacy of long past insult, murder and atrocity. The gentle people of that land, like their model before them—the all-compassionate Buddha, have already forgiven us for those sins. We will be remembered for the gift of Agent Orange, vile produce of Monsanto and Dow Chemical that continues to cripple and deform countless children in this otherwise Edenic land. They may forgive us our sins, but the continuing brutal legacy of residual chemical deformity and death embedded in their native soil makes it impossible for these gentle people to forget us. Their repeated requests for us to clean up this remaining toxic residue have been rejected by our courts. Only a hue and cry from the conscience of an outraged American people can make the vile authors of this chemical carnage and our military who contaminated our unwitting soldiers and Vietnamese civilians alike, step up, admit their guilt and begin the arduous, necessary task of righting this terrible wrong.

Readers with an interest in Monsanto may wish to visit the ‘Agent Orange Action Group’ website at http://www.aoag.org and also the excellent piece below. Be sure to scroll down and read the comments following the article! Justice for the Victims of Agent Orange!